Even if you use boxwood as a garden edge, privacy hedge, or container shrub, adding a companion plant can make your garden more dynamic and vibrant. Read more: 10 Mistakes Everyone Makes When ...

For sheared hedges, you obviously want to look for plants that can handle regular, heavy pruning. Sure, yews ( Taxus ) and boxwood ( Buxus ) work well. But there are many other options out there.

Gardening 101: Growing herbs by the box 02:15. ... Mine is now about four years old. I trim it like a small, low hedge in the summer months. Lemon thyme has a great taste for cooking.

Plant wholesalers now grow 5-7 plants as one segment and sell them in segments for an “instant hedge.” ...

Box hedges are easy to grow and can be used almost anywhere in the garden for a statement display. This evergreen shrub is ideal for making neat shapes such as cones, balls and spirals, though it ...

When box blight first appeared in Ireland back in the 1990s, the conventional advice was to dig up and burn affected plants but that’s no longer the case.

Either way, box, or Buxus, the classic plant for topiary because it holds its shape so well, is being consumed by box caterpillar and by the fungal box blight, which, since the 1990s, has spread ...